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Q2. “The thrust of development administration
failed to energise the Indian bureaucracy”. Comment. *(10 Marks)

Model Answer:

Historically it has been observed that bureaucracy antedates development
administration and does not fit into the requirements of modernization.
Conservation rather than change is the essence of Weberian bureaucracy.

Indian bureaucracy has also been criticized as urban-oriented
and elitist in nature and unrelated to the needs of rural areas where most of
the people of the country live. Above all, development has been looked at as
essentially a matter of shrewd political management of society.

Bureaucracy , in this context has often been considered a
threat to political leadership and an undesirable monopolize of power. It has
even been suggested that developments calls for a degree of debureaucratization
and steady institutionalization of political participation in the management of
development.